How much of your production is volunteer vs. staff? And how do you promote for volunteers to come help?

For weekend production, all key technical positions are staff or contract labor. Some positions, like camera operators, are manned by great volunteers.

Every video shoot is produced by staff, with a minimum crew of one Video Producer and one Production Coordinator. We often recruit help from other Bling members, and we certainly have volunteers that give their time and talents to do everything from create props to act as crew.

We have a facebook group called “Cast & Crew” that we use as our primary outlet for filling needs and recruiting people. Check it out at http://www.facebook.com/groups/lctvcastncrew/

Ask us anything. (mostly)

Oh Holy Night

This video was used as a supportive teaching element for the sermon series Carols. You can watch week 1 of Carols here. Mark Dawson conceptualized it and shot it along with Darin McClaugherty. It was shot in Studio B in Edmond, OK. We used a total of 17 kids ages 4-11 and 10 adults. Crowd shots were actual parents of the kids performing. We spread the parents out into groups to make the auditorium feel more full. We used an in-house  large format printer, from the Construction and Design team that they use to print blue prints on, to print the animal graphics and gifts. I put spray adhesive on the backs of them and glued them to large sheets of foam core. Costumes were hastily made from yards of fabric. The frantic shots of kids getting dressed in the beginning was real! We were actually cutting and tearing and tying while they were shooting! We shot the kids a total of 2 hours. I directed the kids throughout. The kids were spent by the end of it…and so was I. The additional footage of the vocal artist, Scott Floyd, was shot the following day. We did 8 takes with the song. Scott Floyd is the worship pastor at the LifeChurch.tv South OKC campus.

Kirk Suttles

Stevepocalypse

My 5 second project turned into 10 seconds.

Behind the scenes

Happy Birthday

Behind the Scenes: Space Station Alpha

Just a quick video of our Space Station Alpha set.  (Don’t worry; Grant’s camera work is much better than mine.)

Enjoy!

ECHO

The Bling Team at Echo 2010

Next week some of us are heading to Echo Conference 2011, where we’ll be soaking in the creative goodness as well as doing a Q&A Breakout.  What would you like to talk about?  Send us a question through our formspring account and we’ll be sure to bring it up during our breakout.

Hope to see you there!

Behind the Scenes of At The Movies pt. 4

The final look behind the scenes of our 2011 At The Movies promo shoot. It takes a village to raise a horde of zombies.

At The Movies 2011: The full story

Investigating Grace

Investigating Grace Challenge Cards

Investigating Grace is a series that ran in our Loop experience (5th and 6th graders) in May.

The challenge cards that the students took home from this series were 8×6, folded cards, for a finished size of 4×6. We really liked the idea of making them into case files, full of sticky notes, coffee stains, mug shots, paper clips and evidence photos.

They were printed on 14 PT Ultra-thick Cardstock with a matte finish.

Here are the videos for all four weeks of the series:

Behind the Scenes of At The Movies pt. 3

This episode: Directing.

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